| Title | Averroes and the Philosophical Account of Prophecy |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2018 |
| Journal | Studia graeco-arabica |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 287–304 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, Commentary, Natural Philosophy |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Prophecy is conspicuous by its complete absence from all three of the commentaries on De Anima by Averroes. However, prophecy and philosophical metaphysics are discussed by him in his Commentary on the Parva Naturalia, a work written before his methodological work on philosophy and religion, the Faṣl al-maqāl, generally held to have been written ca. 1179-1180. The analyses and remarks of Averroes presented in that Commentary have been characterized by Herbert Davidson as “extremely radical” to the extent that “The term prophet would, on this reading, mean nothing more than the human author of Scripture; and the term revelation would mean a high level of philosophical knowledge”. In the present article I discuss Averroes on method in matters of religion and philosophy as well as prophecy in philosophically argumentative works and in dialectical works, with particular consideration of the reasoning of his Commentary on the Parva Naturalia. I conclude that Averroes found in philosophy and its sciences the most complete and precise truth content and highest levels of knowledge and understanding and from them constructed his worldview, while he found prophecy and religion to be like an Aristotelian practical science in that they concern good and right conduct in the achievement of an end attained in action, not truths to be known for their own sake. |
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| Title | Arabic/Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in IV Sent., D. 49, Q. 2, A.1 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | The Thomist |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 509–550 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Ibn Bāǧǧa, Avicenna, Alexander of Aphrodisias |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes' Philosophical Conception of Separate Intellect and God |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Published in | La lumière de l'intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d'Averroès dans son temps. Actes du IVe colloque international de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques). Cordoue, 9–12 décembre 1998 |
| Pages | 391–404 |
| Categories | Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Ibn Rushd/Averroes and "Islamic" Rationalism |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2009 |
| Journal | Medieval EncountersAl-Andalus, Sepharad and Medievela Iberia. Cultural Contact and Diffusion |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225–235 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, Theology |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| The classical rationalist philosophical tradition in Arabic reached its culmination in the writings of the twelfth-century Andalusian Averroes whose translated commentaries on Aristotle conveyed to the Latin West a rationalist approach which significantly challenged and affected theological and philosophical thinking in that Christian context. That methodology is shown at work in his Fasl al-Maqāl or Book of the Distinction of Discourse and the Establishment of the Relation of Religious Law and Philosophy (c. 1280), although the deeply philosophical character of his subtle arguments has gone largely unappreciated. Here the philosophical foundations for his reasoning are exposed to reveal key elements of his rationalism. That approach is confirmed in his assertion in his later Long Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1290) that the highest worship of God is to be found first and foremost in the philosophical science of metaphysics rather than in the rituals of religion. |
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| Title | Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1998 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Philosophy |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507–523 |
| Categories | Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroès. Grand Commentaire de la "Métaphysique" d'Aristote. Livre lām-lambda, traduit de l'arabe et annoté par Aubert Martin |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1990 |
| Journal | Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 364–365 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Ibn Rushd's Metaphysics. A Translation with Introduction of Ibn Rushd's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, trans. Charles Genequand |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1987 |
| Journal | The Middle East Journal |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 310–311 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Arabic/Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in IV Sent., D. 49, Q. 2, A.1 |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2012 |
| Journal | The Thomist |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 509–550 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, al-Fārābī, Ibn Bāǧǧa, Avicenna, Alexander of Aphrodisias |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Averroes and the Philosophical Account of Prophecy |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2018 |
| Journal | Studia graeco-arabica |
| Volume | 8 |
| Pages | 287–304 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, Commentary, Natural Philosophy |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Prophecy is conspicuous by its complete absence from all three of the commentaries on De Anima by Averroes. However, prophecy and philosophical metaphysics are discussed by him in his Commentary on the Parva Naturalia, a work written before his methodological work on philosophy and religion, the Faṣl al-maqāl, generally held to have been written ca. 1179-1180. The analyses and remarks of Averroes presented in that Commentary have been characterized by Herbert Davidson as “extremely radical” to the extent that “The term prophet would, on this reading, mean nothing more than the human author of Scripture; and the term revelation would mean a high level of philosophical knowledge”. In the present article I discuss Averroes on method in matters of religion and philosophy as well as prophecy in philosophically argumentative works and in dialectical works, with particular consideration of the reasoning of his Commentary on the Parva Naturalia. I conclude that Averroes found in philosophy and its sciences the most complete and precise truth content and highest levels of knowledge and understanding and from them constructed his worldview, while he found prophecy and religion to be like an Aristotelian practical science in that they concern good and right conduct in the achievement of an end attained in action, not truths to be known for their own sake. |
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| Title | Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1998 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Philosophy |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507–523 |
| Categories | Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| Title | Averroes' Philosophical Conception of Separate Intellect and God |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2011 |
| Published in | La lumière de l'intellect. La pensée scientifique et philosophique d'Averroès dans son temps. Actes du IVe colloque international de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques). Cordoue, 9–12 décembre 1998 |
| Pages | 391–404 |
| Categories | Psychology, Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| Title | Averroès. Grand Commentaire de la "Métaphysique" d'Aristote. Livre lām-lambda, traduit de l'arabe et annoté par Aubert Martin |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1990 |
| Journal | Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 364–365 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| Title | Ibn Rushd's Metaphysics. A Translation with Introduction of Ibn Rushd's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, trans. Charles Genequand |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 1987 |
| Journal | The Middle East Journal |
| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 310–311 |
| Categories | Metaphysics |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| Title | Ibn Rushd/Averroes and "Islamic" Rationalism |
| Type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2009 |
| Journal | Medieval EncountersAl-Andalus, Sepharad and Medievela Iberia. Cultural Contact and Diffusion |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225–235 |
| Categories | Metaphysics, Theology |
| Author(s) | Richard C. Taylor |
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| The classical rationalist philosophical tradition in Arabic reached its culmination in the writings of the twelfth-century Andalusian Averroes whose translated commentaries on Aristotle conveyed to the Latin West a rationalist approach which significantly challenged and affected theological and philosophical thinking in that Christian context. That methodology is shown at work in his Fasl al-Maqāl or Book of the Distinction of Discourse and the Establishment of the Relation of Religious Law and Philosophy (c. 1280), although the deeply philosophical character of his subtle arguments has gone largely unappreciated. Here the philosophical foundations for his reasoning are exposed to reveal key elements of his rationalism. That approach is confirmed in his assertion in his later Long Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1290) that the highest worship of God is to be found first and foremost in the philosophical science of metaphysics rather than in the rituals of religion. |
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